Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-18
A DOUBLE GOLDEN WEDDING.

TWO Aged Couples who stood at the |
Altar together Fifty Years Ago.
STANFORD, Oct. 17.-On October 10, 1887,
four young people living at High Ridge, in
the upper end of this township, were married
and on Wednesday of this week the golden
anniversary will be celebrated by the two old
couples with the assistance of a small host of
children, grandchildren, friends and neigh
bors.
There was little romance to that marriage
of fifty years ago. The young people were
children of farmers, had grown up together
as schoolmates in the little country school
house, and had played in the green fields
around the little hamlet of their birth. When
the marriage took place the grooms were just
of age and the brides were two or three years
younger. Bright and early one morning they
drove together up into Westohester county
and minister in the little village of Bedford
Station joined the two couples in wedlock.
They were soon settled down to the quiet,
uneventful life that was led by their ances-
tors for generations back and to day are in
the enjoyment of peaceful old age. The
hand of time has whitened their locks. but
from appearances it would seem as if many
years would yet elapse before the separation
of death would come.
ln0 ndmeS O1 Gno TWO couples VINO were
married on that October day half century
ago are Alexander Provost and Phoebe Cur
tbs and Lewis Raymond and Sally Jones. The
descendants of the aged couple are to be
found in various parts of the country. Mr.
and Mrs. Provost had six children and all of
them are living. Their names are Norman
and Chauncy, of Stamford; Cyrus and Ward,
who are in business at Bridgeport; Pauline,
the wife of William Curtis of Detroit,
Mich: Ella, wife of Captain Weeks of Bay
Shore, L. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond became the par
ents of twelve children, of whom nine are
| yet living. Their names are: Styles, a pro-
lessor of music at Minneapolis; Agnes, now
| home on a visit, whose home is also in the
| latter city; Bradford, president of Lawrence
university, Wis; Sarah, wife of Cyrus
| Searles of Hunting Ridge Emma Gertrude,
/ wife of James 81. Parker of North Stamford;
Hiram, an employe of the New York post
| Office Robert, who resides in New Bedford,
| Mass, and Annie, the wife of Ward Stevens
| of Hunting Ridge in this town.
The friends and relatives of the aged cou-
| pie are making great preparations to cele-
brate the golden weddings on Wednesday
next, and congratulations are already coming
| to them from far and near.
On the same day that the golden wedding
anniversary is to be celebrated there will be
| a double wedding in Stamford. It will take
| place at the residence of Mr.. George Baker,
| editor of the Stamford Herald, and the brides
| will be Misses Bertha and Libbie Baker
daughters of the editor. The friends of
these young ladies express the wish that their
welded lives may be as long and as happy
| as those of the two couples who were Joined
| in matrimonial bonds on the same day of
October fifty years ago.-Evening Sun.
MISTAKE OF SEVENTY VOTES.
| Bradford SeIectmeR Change Places
I Owing to Mistake i'm the Count.
The Branford contested election case was
settled yesterday. E. S. Bishop and Thomas
Carney made recount of the votes for the
selectmen of the town. The recount shows
that Griffin, the petitioner, was defeated, land
Foote, the Republican nominee, elected.